Arts of Islam

What is the purpose of studying what type of art form? Art is a mirror of every culture reflecting the principle and history of a period. For decades, Islamic art continues to build its own foundation and continues to produce unlimited amount of art. As the development of Islamic visual art reflects the use of geometric patterns, glazed ceramics and inscriptions while mysticism seeks to discover the true meaning of the Islamic traditional symbols, It is consistent with both physical and religious art.

"Islamic art comes from many sources: Rome, the early Christian art, and the Byzantine style were handed over to early Islamic art and architecture; the influence of Sas's previous Islamic Persian art was serious ; Central Asian style brought invasion of various nomads The entire concept of "Islamic art" has been criticized by contemporary art historians, but it is called "imaginary fiction" or "mirage" The influence of China influenced Islamic paintings, pottery and textiles. The similarity between the different times and places of the Islamic world, especially in the Golden Age of Islam, is enough for scholars to use this term widely.

What is Islam? How do you figure out the phenomenon of human and history characterized by this diversity and contradiction? What is "Islam" of Islamic philosophy and Islamic art? Should we talk about Islam or Muslim? Should we distinguish between Islam (religion) and Islam (culture)? Or should we completely abandon 'Muslim' as an analytical term? Among them, Shahab Al-Ahmad proposed a bold new Islamic concept that challenges the mainstream understanding based on "religious" and "cultural" categories, or their privileged laws and scriptures. He believes that these ideas will prevent us understanding Islam, distorting it, weakening Islam, making it incoherent

Islamic art usually refers to works that began in the 7th century, Islamic beliefs were originally under the prophet Muhammad, where Islam is the main religion. Islam shares a prophetic tradition of Judaism and Christianity, but monotheism has its own beliefs and rituals. For example, believe that Allah is the only god, Muhammad is his prophet, daily prayer, charity, Ramadan's fast. Pilgrimage to Mecca if possible. However, it is difficult to define Islamic art. Not all Islamic art is religious, and not all artists who created it are Muslims. Islamic art includes paintings and roots of architecture, calligraphy, decorative art (carpet, pottery, metalwork etc.), various regions of the Arab world (Iranian countries, Turkey, India, China, Spain). Because writing is highly valued in Islam, calligraphy is everywhere and can be used as a decoration for objects and buildings.